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Valentina Lisitsa
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1973-12-11
Discography
- Valentina1996
- Valentina & Alexei, Vol. 21996
- Virtuosa Valentina!1996
- Cello & Piano Concertos1997
- Virtuosa Valentina, Vol. 21997
- Chopin Recital2010
- Four Sonatas2011
- Piano Concerto no. 22012
- Piano Concerto no. 32012
- Beethoven: Sonata no. 23 / Schumann: Kinderszenen / Thalberg: Grande fantaisie sur des motifs de Il barbiere di Siviglia / Liszt: Totentanz2013
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 108,217
- Total plays
- 791,919
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Valentina Lisitsa is a Ukrainian-born classical pianist. Born into a family of non-musicians in Kiev, Ukraine, she started playing piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital only a year later. Despite her early disposition to music, her dream at that point was to become a professional chess player. She attended the Lysenko music school for Gifted Children and, later, Kiev Conservatory. She currently lives in the United States and performs in many prestigious concert venues worl
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Ultrastructural Characterization of the Lower Motor System in a Mouse Model of Krabbe Disease
· 2016 · cited 11,691x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,388x
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,910x
- The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview
· 2017 · cited 5,313x
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Quotes
- “I’m nothing but a conduit. The music goes though my ears, my fingers... Composer is a god. Composer creates music. We’re performers. We’re just passing it on.”
- “If the question [about if there were only one composer in the world I could play] is purely ‘original’ works, no transcriptions, then Beethoven.”
- “Would-be musicians are starving themselves emotionally and intellectually just to be perfect.”
- “It’s only when you stop trying to find faults and start doing something constructive that you will survive … It’s just good for you as a human not to dwell on your disasters.”
- “Valentina Lisitsa in conversation with Melanie Spanswick (Nov 4, 2012) on Youtube 80,802 views”
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Key facts
- Born
- 1973 (age 52 – 53), Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union (now Kyiv , Ukraine)
- Genres
- Classical
- Occupation
- Classical pianist
- Instrument
- Piano
- Years active
- 1977–present
- Website
- valentinalisitsa .com
- Channel
- Valentina Lisitsa QOR Records Official channel
- Genre
- Classical music
- Subscribers
- 749 thousand
- Views
- 320 million
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.valentinalisitsa.com
- Image
- Warsaw-valentina-lisitsa-cr-alexei-kuznetsoff-14.jpg
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- Commons category
- Valentina Lisitsa
- date of birth
- 1970-03-25
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- social media followers
- 732000
- pseudonym
- Soviet Queen
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Article
Valentina Yevhenivna Lisitsa (born 1973) is a Ukrainian and Russian classical concert pianist. Lisitsa independently launched her career on social media, without initially signing with a tour promoter or record company. By 2012, Lisitsa was among the most frequently viewed pianists on YouTube. The Toronto Symphony canceled her 2015 engagements as a soloist with them because of her social media postings in support of pro-Russian separatists during the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Life and career